What games are your currently plaything through on your deck? Would you recommend them to other players?
I’ve been playing a handful of games:
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Demon’s Tilt: an excellent pinball game that runs great on the Deck. Also, the pixel art is very nice.
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Hades: a great roguelike, finishing the last few side quests now.
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Void Scrappers: a fun little survivors-like. Cheap and addictive.
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Cassette Beasts: similar to Pokémon, if Pokémon had actually innovated in the last few years. Awesome mechanics, and all the battles are doubles matches.
Demon’s Tilt has been on my radar for awhile now. I’ve really enjoyed non-traditional pinball games like Metroid Prime Pinball and Yoku’s Island Express, Demon’s Tilt looks closer to a traditional table than those two but still seems like it goes beyond what a physical table could do.
Edit: just got notified by steam that the sequel to Demon’s Tilt just released: XenoTilt
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Cities Skylines cause I’m hyped for C:S2. Also started and finished Layers of Fear 2, great game!
Days Gone. Looks good, runs well, fun game. Almost at 60 hours so far but end is in sight. Got a few in mind after I finish but not quite decided yet.
BG3…soon. :)
Just finished Doom 2016. Runs smooth as silk, and the controls are great. Just starting Hollow Knight now.
Good to hear about more people playing Hollow Knight. It’s excellent, and I highly recommend avoiding story spoilers until you’ve finished the main quests.
Tiny text and 40s eyes cause me to want to play a lot of stuff docked, but Hollow Knight was a fantastic experience on the Deck.
I’ve been playing a lot of No Man’s Sky, but just picked up Shadows of Doubt and have been having a blast with that.
Shadows of Doubt has a weird bug
where loading into the initial menu takes several minutes instead of a few seconds.Edit: Update came out today that fixed this! Haven’t figured out why yet, but the developer is working on a fix and the game runs pretty decently outside of that. Using a community control scheme is recommended because the default controller scheme leaves something to be desired.I’ve just wishlisted Shadows of Doubt. Seems interesting.
Fanatical actually has it on sale right now for 30% off. Biggest sale on steam so far is just a 20% sale, so the fanatical deal is pretty good.
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I’ve been playing quite a bit of Morrowind.
I’m hoping to get a chance to start Elden Ring and Middle Earth Shadow of War this weekend
Played again The Outer Worlds and DLCs a couple weeks back and preferred the deck experience over my first play-through on the XBox. Currently playing High on Life and I’m not really convinced, way to linear and controls are… not really optimal.
All time favorite: No Man’s Sky, Stardew Valley, Witcher3
Path of Exile. It’s been great on the Steam Deck and I’m going through the last few days of this league. Once that finishes I’ll start putting a lot more time into Street Fighter 6 (with the compact portable hitbox controller I made) and some Eldest Souls on the side.
Steamworld Heist and Olli Olli World. They fit what I want to play on the Deck: bite sized, good for lounging, a little more simple than what I want to play when I’m sitting at my desktop.
No joke, Steamworld Heist got me through the first two weeks of being a parent.
I have a Diablo 4 addiction. It runs surprisingly well on my Deck. Only problem is it requires the internet, so I can’t play it anywhere outside of the house.
I’m baffled by how poorly Diablo 4 handles “mediocre” connections. I have been using T-Mobile Home Internet for a while and I’m even able to stream GeForce Now reasonably well, but I run into lag spikes on Diablo 4.
I don’t think it’s a network problem. I think Diablo has a memory leak that causes issues that are especially noticeable on the Steam Deck. I’ve heard it’s getting patched out soon, but not sure where I got that info from. One of my Discord friends I think…
None. I got it so my partner could play video games on the couch with me while I’m smackin moblins in Hyrule.
